Claude François Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny (1798–1871) was a French
landscape
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Nièvre
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Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Jean-Baptiste Regnault (; 9 October 1754 – 12 November 1829) was a French painter.
Biography
Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to ...
and Jean-Victor Bertin. He made his debut in 1822 with an historical landscape on the subject of ''Daphnis and Chloe''. In 1824–7 he travelled in Italy, where he became friend of
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
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. He was to return to Italy several more times. He settled in Paris, making frequent visits to
Fontainebleau
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,
Barbizon
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The inhabitants are called ''Barbizonais''.
Art history
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, and the coast of Normandy. In 1843 he went to Greece to make drawings of the major ancient sites, and then continued to Asia Minor.
He was awarded a medal of the first class in 1837, and the
Legion of Honour
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in 1842. His ''View of Genazzano, Environs of Rome'', and ''View of Royat, France'', were sent by the
French Government
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to the
International Exhibition of 1862
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in London. He was described by
Théophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
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as the "Ingres of landscape painting".
Aligny died at
Lyon
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s in 1871, while holding the post of Director of the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Works
His most important works include:
* Amiens. Museum. ''The Good Samaritan''. 1834.
* Besançon. Museum. ''Christ at Emmaus''. 1837.
* Bordeaux. Museum. ''The Infant Bacchus educated by the Nymphs of Naxos''. 1848. (pictured)
* Caen. Museum. ''Death of Du Guesclin''. 1838.
*
Carcassonne
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...
. Museum. ''Hercules and the Hydra''. 1842.
* Nantes. Museum. ''The Entrance of the Village of Corpo di Cava, between Naples and Salerno''.
*Paris. S.-Paul.-S.-Louis. ''Landscape, with Baptism of Christ''.
*Paris.
Saint-Étienne-du-Mont
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.'Two Landscapes with Biblical subjects.
* Rennes. Museum. ''Landscape, with a Monk at Prayer''. 1839.
He also etched a series of ten views of the most celebrated sites of ancient Greece.